Brief Introduction
Data in this chapter provide summary data of
I. Foreign Trade
Data on foreign trade include: varieties of
imports and exports, amount (weight), value, countries (regions), imports and
exports corporations, destination within territory, origin of goods within
territory, mode of trade, types of tariffs and so on.
The scope of foreign trade statistics are
designed according to United Nations’ principles on international trade
statistics, that is: all imports or exports that will lead to stock changes of
material resources with the
Sources of data on foreign trade are from the
General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of
Customs statistics in value terms for both
imports and exports are compiled according to the classifications of UN
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). The list of import and
export commodities is compiled based on the Harmonized Commodity Description
and Coding System (HS) stipulated by the Customs Cooperation Council （World Customs Organization） and China’s reality of
imports and exports.
In the table on
II. Statistics on Utilization of
Foreign Capitals
Utilization of foreign capitals includes: foreign
direct investments and other foreign investments, and the basic condition of
registration of foreign funded enterprises.
The statistics cover all the units and
departments which have utilized foreign capitals, all the Sino-foreign joint
ventures, Sino-foreign cooperative enterprises, ventures exclusively with
foreign investment, foreign-funded stock companies, Sino-foreign cooperative
development projects (including the enterprises funded by the entrepreneurs
from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) with independent accounting system and legal
person status, and all foreign
enterprises or enterprises funded by the entrepreneurs from Hong Kong Macao and
Taiwan which engaged in business activities, and branches of foreign companies which
have been approved to be set up within
the boundaries of the People’s Republic of China after verification and
registration through administrative authorities for industry and commerce.
Data on utilization of foreign capitals are from
Ministry of Commerce, of which, data on basic condition of registration of
foreign funded enterprises are from State Administration for Industry and
Commerce through comprehensive reporting system.
Special notice: data on utilization of foreign
capitals before 1985 were survey results from governmental statistical
agencies, since 1986 all data are from Ministry of Commerce (formerly MOFTEC).
Data on utilization of foreign capitals before 2000 include foreign loans.
III.
Overseas Direct Investment
Overseas direct investment includes: basic
situation of domestic investors and overseas enterprises, investment, earnings
and their distribution between domestic and overseas invested enterprises,
import and export of commodities through overseas enterprises, approval of
overseas enterprises.
Statistics cover all types of overseas corporate
and non-corporate enterprises by direct investment of domestic investors.
Data are from Ministry of Commerce through
comprehensive survey.
IV. Foreign Economic Cooperation
Data on foreign economic cooperation include:
contracted projects, labour services cooperation, design and consultation
services, contracted volume, complete business turnover, business turnover by
countries (regions) and so on.
The statistics cover contracted projects, labour
services cooperation with foreign countries (regions).
The statistical unit in the scheme is the
corporate enterprise engaged in contracted projects and labour services
cooperation with foreign countries and has been approved by the department of
commerce at various levels.
Data on foreign economic cooperation are from
Ministry of Commerce through a comprehensive reporting system.
V. Others
The
average exchange rates of RMB yuan to US dollar,
Japanese yen and